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Bologna Museums and Bologna Art Galleries (Bologna, Italy)



There is a magnificent selection of museums in Bologna, Italy, with complexes including probably some of the best historic collections in Italy. Exhibitions in Bologna range from large to small, local to international and many are located in beautiful Bolognese buildings, right in the heart of the Bologna.

Bologna, Italy, art galleries display some wonderful collections of art in Bologna, including paintings by world famous and local Bolognese artists, both modern and more classical. Here are some of the top museums and art galleries in Bologna worth visiting.




Bologna Museums: Museum Card (Carta Bologna dei Musei) - Bologna's museum card provides great value for money and passes are available for either one or three days. The museum card allows free access to the city's main museums and reduced entry in some others. It is readily available at both museums and tourist information centres.

Bologna Museums: Museo Civico Archeologico (Archaeological Museum) - Via dell'Archiginnasio 2, Bologna, Italy
Tel: +39 (0)51 233 849
Next to the Palazzo dei Banchi, Bologna's excellent Museo Civico Archeologico occupies the building of an old hospital and is crammed with one of Italy's most comprehensive collections of antiquities. Highlights include one of Italy's major Egyptian collections - with a notable group of Egyptian mummies and glorious sarcophagi, beautiful items from the Iron age Villanova culture, jewellery, artifacts from Etruscan Velzna, funerary art, terracotta urns, ancient vases and also some well-preserved items from Roman times. There is also a gallery of casts, with many detailed copies of famous Roman and Greek sculptures. Of particular interest is a bronze Certosa jar that dates back over 1,500 years and also a copy of the 5th-century Greek sculpture, Phidias's head of Athena Lemnia.
Museum open: Tuesday to Saturday - 09:00 to 18:30, Sunday 10:00 to 18:30
Museum admission: charge

Bologna Museums: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (National Picture Gallery) - Via Belle Arti 56, Bologna, Italy
Tel: +39 (0)51 421 1984
Bologna's most important art is stored and displayed in the National Picture Gallery, which is set amongst the university buildings. The gallery houses works by many major Italian artists, including some local artists. Highlights include work by 14th-century Bolognese artists - such as the painter Vitale de Bologna, with his intense St. George and the Dragon, several rooms of detached frescoes originating for Bologna churches, and a Renaissance section full with fine works by Antonio and Bartolomeo Vivarini and Cima da Conegliano of Venice - showing the considerable influence to local artists from Venice and Tuscany. There are numerous rooms filled with paintings, many real gems, and some of the larger paintings are displayed in the auditorium.
Museum open: Tuesday to Sunday - 09:00 to 19:00
Museum admission: charge, children under 18 are free

Bologna Museums: The University Museums - via Zamboni, Bologna, Italy
There are a number of interesting, small museums connected to the University complex, housed in the Palazzo Poggi. These include:

• The Museo Navale (Naval Museum) - with impressive 18th-century model warships (some very large) and collections of early maps/li>
  
• The Museo di Architettura Militare (Military Museum) - with plans and models of the regions fortifications
• Museo Ostetrico (Obstetric Museum) - a museum devoted to obstetrics
• The Museo Aldovrandi - housing the collections of the famous Renaissance naturalist Ulisse Aldovrandi
• Museo di Astronomia (Museum of Astronomy) - containing many astronomy instruments that were used in the 18th and 19th centuries

Bologna Museums: Museo di Antropologia - Via Selme 3, Bologna, Italy -
The interesting museum is full of bones, artifacts of prehistoric Italians and some African masks.
Museum open: Monday to Friday - 09:00 to 13:00
Closed: Saturday, Sunday and completely in July and August
Museum admission: free

Bologna Museums: Museo di Mineralogia - Piazza di Porta San Donato, Bologna, Italy
This mineral museum in Bologna has a selection of rocks , precious stones, rare minerals and meteorites.
Museum open: Monday to Saturday - 09:00 to 13:00
Closed: Sunday

Bologna Museums: Museo di Anatomia Patologica - Via Massarenti, Bologna, Italy
With studies of human and animal deformities, either with wax models or the real thing preserved in bottles, this Museo di Anatomia Patologica is quite unique and very unusual.
Museum open: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00, Saturday 09:00 to 13:00
Closed: Sunday
Museum admission: free

Bologna Museums: Other Museums in Bologna

• Museo Civico Medievale Via Manzoni
• Museo Di Fisica Via Irnerio
• Pinacoteca Nazionale Via Belle Arti
• Museo Dello Studio dell'Ottavo
• Museo Degli Studenti E Della Goliardia Via Zamboni
• Museo Marsili Via Zamboni
• Museo Indiano Via Zamboni
• Collezione Cospi Via Zamboni
• Museo Delle Cere Anatomiche Via Zamboni
• Museo Delle Navi

 
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